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<span class=large>JONAH</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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Jonah prophesies the downfall of Nineveh—The people repent and the city is saved.
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And</span> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
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Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Missionary Work; TG Preaching; TG Prophets, Mission of.">preach</a> unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
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So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.  Now Nineveh was an <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB great city to God.">exceeding</a> great city of three days’ <sup>b</sup><a href="jonah/3/3b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE through greater Nineveh with its environs.">journey</a>.
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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 31: 5.">So</a> the people of <sup>b</sup><a href="jonah/3/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 12: 41.">Nineveh</a> believed God, and proclaimed a <sup>c</sup><a href="jonah/3/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Fasting.">fast</a>, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered <i>him</i> with <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 11: 25.">sackcloth</a>, and sat in ashes.
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And he caused <i>it</i> to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 19: 33; 3 Ne. 20: 26.">turn</a> every one from his evil way, and from the violence that <i>is</i> in their hands.
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Who can tell <i>if</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/9a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Jonah 3: 9  . . .  we will repent, and turn unto God, but he will turn away from us his fierce anger  . . .">God</a> will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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&#182; And God <sup>a</sup><a href="jonah/3/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 121: 24.">saw</a> their works, that they <sup>b</sup><a href="jonah/3/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Repentance.">turned</a> from their evil way; <sup>c</sup><a href="jonah/3/10c" mark="c" type="H" title="JST Jonah 3: 10  . . .  and repented; and God turned away the evil that he had said he would bring upon them.">and</a> God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did <i>it</i> <sup>d</sup><a href="jonah/3/10d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 56: 4 (4-6).">not</a>.
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